Newcastle are benefitting from Mad Dog’s odd-couple relationship with Eddie Howe and his attention to detail
Name the assistant manager noted for clashing with, among several others, Mikel Arteta, Jürgen Klopp and Unai Emery on Premier League touchlines and, occasionally, in stadium tunnels?
Although Howe’s caring, holistic, public persona is not an act, Newcastle’s manager has a harder, more detached side and does not like being crossed but, unusually, he listens when his assistant disagrees with him. “Jason and I didn’t really have a relationship as players,” Howe says. “We’re very different people – he’s definitely more extrovert. But there’s a force when we come together that’s really powerful.
Tindall is a big reason why Howe is in the north-east. In May 2021, Howe seemed set to become Celtic’s manager but there was one, ultimately insurmountable, problem. Once it became clear “Mad Dog” would not be joining him in Glasgow, Howe’s interest cooled and a door opened for Ange Postecoglou. If the Mile End-born Tindall enjoys playing up to the loud, brash caricature of an East End wide boy, that image is inaccurately one-dimensional. Like Howe, the 47-year-old – he is two weeks the Newcastle manager’s senior – is obsessed with fine margins, memorably changing the colour of Bournemouth’s goal nets from red and black to white to enhance the peripheral vision of the club’s strikers.
Although the duo rarely socialise, the ties that bind their families are very real, with Howe following the rapid progress his assistant’s son, Levi, is making in Bournemouth’s academy.
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